The 21st century
Netherlands · born Woerden, 1996 · six times Wimbledon wheelchair singles champion · three Eastbourne singles titles
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6
Wimbledon singles titles, 2017 to 2024
145
Singles wins in a row, 2021 to 2024
3
Eastbourne singles titles, 2022, 2023, 2026
43
Major titles, 24 in singles
Born in Woerden in 1996, de Groot took up wheelchair tennis at seven, after a physiotherapist suggested it in the summer of 2004. She won her first major at Wimbledon in 2017, and in 2021 won all four majors, the Paralympic singles gold in Tokyo and the Masters; she won the four majors again in 2022 and 2023. Between February 2021 and May 2024 she won 145 singles matches in a row. By the 2026 French Open she had 43 major titles, 24 of them in singles, and had won each of the four majors six times in singles. She was ITF world champion five times and won the Laureus award for sportsperson of the year with a disability in 2024. In 2026 she won a third Eastbourne singles title and lost the Wimbledon final to Yui Kamiji.
| Major singles titles | 6: Wimbledon (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) |
|---|---|
| Major singles finals lost | 2: Wimbledon (2019, 2026) |
| Major doubles titles | 3: Wimbledon (2018, 2019, 2023) |
| Other grass singles titles | 1: Eastbourne (2026) |
| Other grass doubles titles | 1: Eastbourne (2025) |
| Wimbledon doubles | 2018 with Yui Kamiji; 2019 with Aniek van Koot; 2023 with Jiske Griffioen. Finals lost 2017, 2022 and 2024 |
| Wimbledon singles finals | 2017: beat Sabine Ellerbrock 6-0, 6-4. 2018: beat Aniek van Koot 6-3, 6-2. 2019: lost to van Koot 4-6, 6-4, 5-7. 2022: beat Yui Kamiji 6-4, 6-2. 2024: beat van Koot 6-4, 6-4 |
| Eastbourne | Singles 2022 (beat Kamiji 6-3, 6-2 in the first women's wheelchair singles there) and 2023 (beat Griffioen 6-3, 6-3), as well as 2026. Doubles 2023 with Griffioen and 2025 with Lucy Shuker. Singles runner-up 2025 |
| British Open, Roehampton | Singles runner-up 2024, losing to Kamiji 7-5, 6-3, and 2026, retiring against Wang Ziying |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Women's wheelchair singles | |
| 2018 | Women's wheelchair doubles | with Yui Kamiji |
| 2018 | Women's wheelchair singles | |
| 2019 | Women's wheelchair doubles | with Aniek van Koot |
| 2021 | Women's wheelchair singles | |
| 2022 | Women's wheelchair singles | |
| 2023 | Women's wheelchair doubles | with Jiske Griffioen |
| 2023 | Women's wheelchair singles | |
| 2024 | Women's wheelchair singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"Tennis made me feel normal."
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Netherlands, 2004
In the summer of 2004 a physiotherapist suggested she try wheelchair tennis. At about seven she joined a group of other children who used wheelchairs and, she said later, found she belonged. "Tennis made me feel normal," she told the ITF in 2019.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeWimbledon 2017
Her first Australian Open that year overwhelmed her, and at Roland Garros she lost a match from match point up, which she called a let-down. At Wimbledon she decided simply to enjoy herself. She won the title, her first major, beating Sabine Ellerbrock 6-0, 6-4 in the final.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeWimbledon 2018
A year after her first title she beat Aniek van Koot 6-3, 6-2 in the singles final and won the doubles with Yui Kamiji. No woman in wheelchair tennis had won both Wimbledon titles in the same year before. In 2019 van Koot beat her in the singles final, and then partnered her to the doubles title.
Source: WikipediaEastbourne 2022
Eastbourne held its first women's wheelchair singles in June 2022, and de Groot won it, beating Kamiji 6-3, 6-2 in the final. It was her sixth singles title of the season and took her winning run to 52 matches. She won there again in 2023, and a third time in 2026.
Source: Wikipedia2021 to 2024
After losing to Kamiji in February 2021, de Groot did not lose another singles match until Li Xiaohui beat her in May 2024, a run of 145 wins that included three Wimbledon titles. Two months after it ended she was back on Wimbledon's grass and won a sixth title, beating van Koot 6-4, 6-4.
Source: WikipediaEastbourne 2026
Ranked second in the world, she beat Li Xiaohui, the second seed, 6-4, 7-5 in the final for her third Eastbourne singles title, after wins there in 2022 and 2023. A fortnight later she reached her eighth Wimbledon singles final, where Kamiji won the title to complete a career Golden Slam.
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